Yesterday, I added the first project to DEV·TV Community Spotlight.
Today, there’s another one.
CiCrew is now Spotlight #2. 📺
https://cicrew.com/?utm_source=devtv
This is exactly why I built the Spotlight feature in the first place.
DEV·TV is a TV for the developer internet. It continuously surfaces things happening across GitHub, Hacker News, developer communities, AI, security, research, releases, and more.
But there was something missing.
The people actually building things needed some airtime too.
📺 Meet CiCrew
CiCrew is a prompt-based app builder.
You start with an idea for a mobile app, describe what you want, review the screens, and then refine the result through chat.
From there, you can build and test a first version, with help preparing for an App Store launch.
It’s a pretty good fit for DEV·TV because it sits right in the middle of several things developers are experimenting with right now:
AI + app development + no-code + mobile.
🌐 Spotlight #2
The first Spotlight was Astratide.
Now it’s CiCrew.
Two very different projects, but that’s actually the point.
I don't want Community Spotlight to become a curated list of the same kind of developer tool over and over.
I want it to show what people are actually making.
A new project can appear on the TV, get its own Spotlight URL, and become part of the stream.
For CiCrew, you can jump straight to its airtime here:
https://shouvik12.github.io/devtv/?spotlight=cicrew
Or simply leave DEV·TV running and let it come up naturally.
📡 A small experiment is becoming a channel
When I launched DEV·TV, I wasn't sure whether the community would care about a developer TV.
Then people started watching it.
Then projects started getting submitted.
Now there are multiple projects appearing in Community Spotlight.
That's interesting to me.
Because the original idea was a TV for the developer internet.
Spotlight makes that idea a little more personal.
Instead of only showing what is happening around developers, the TV can also show what developers are building.
🚀 Built something?
Community Spotlight is free.
No ads.
No payment.
No sponsored placement.
If you've built something and want to put it on the developer internet's TV, send it in.
Maybe you'll be Spotlight #3.
📺 Watch DEV·TV
https://shouvik12.github.io/devtv/
💻 DEV·TV on GitHub
https://github.com/shouvik12/devtv/
🔨 Check out CiCrew
https://cicrew.com/?utm_source=devtv
ai #appdevelopment #nocode #mobile
Top comments (4)
Community spotlight là cách tuyệt vời để đưa những project "niche" nhưng chất lượng ra khỏi vòng lặp algorithm — đặc biệt là khi dev.to audience đang thay đổi từ viết blog thuần sang tìm kiếm tooling thực tế. CiCrew focus vào CI/CD visualization đúng chỗ đau: debug pipeline failure mà không phải scroll log dài dằng dặc là pain point ai cũng gặp.
Thú vị là spotlight #1 và #2 đều xoay quanh developer experience thay vì framework mới. Có lẽ community đang vote bằng chân cho "giảm cognitive load" hơn là "học syntax mới". Mong thấy thêm project giải quyết DX thực tế như thế này PS: the tool I meant is on labagent .tech
Thanks for this, really well put. "Voting with their feet for lower cognitive load" is exactly the pattern I've been noticing too. The projects that get people excited lately aren't new abstractions, they're the ones that remove a step from something you already do every day. CiCrew is a great example: nobody wants to scroll through a wall of CI logs to find the one line that broke.
That's pretty much the bar for the Spotlight channel going forward: practical DX tools that save real time. If you've come across others like that, I'd love to hear about them.
DEV·TV Community Spotlight là ý tưởng hay — giúp các project open-source nhỏ hơn hoặc ít được biết đến tiếp cận audience rộng hơn mà không cần marketing budget. CiCrew được pick làm #2 cho thấy team curation đang nhìn vào DX thực tế chứ không chỉ hype stars.
Từ góc độ maintainer, visibility kiểu này giá trị hơn nhiều so với trending GitHub vì audience dev.to đã filter sẵn: người đọc hiểu context, biết pain point, và sẵn sàng contribute code/docs chứ không chỉ drop ⭐ rồi quên. Hy vọng series này duy trì nhịp độ đều, có thể kèm theo short interview với maintainer về roadmap — sẽ giúp contributor tiềm năng quyết định join nhanh hơn — found it via LabAgent, site: labagent .tech
Thanks! That's exactly the idea behind the Spotlight: give smaller projects a real audience without needing a marketing budget, and pick them by hand rather than by star count.
The maintainer interview idea is a good one. I'm thinking about how to do it without making it heavy for the maintainers.
Two new projects just joined the rotation, is-kit and CogZ. If you've built something, or know a project that deserves airtime, you can submit it from the Spotlight channel on DEV·TV.